black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

Boethius

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
BOETHIUS

Gratitude Heaven Stability Worth
Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?
BOETHIUS

Achievement Evil God Goodness Men Nature Seek Virtue
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
BOETHIUS

Adversity Happiness Men Remember
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
BOETHIUS

Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.
BOETHIUS

Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
BOETHIUS

Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUS

Faith Possible Reason
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUS

Deep Law Love Wisdom
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
BOETHIUS

Alone Deep Heaven Man
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUS

Freedom Music Nature Unity
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
BOETHIUS

Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
BOETHIUS

Fortune Happiness Oneself
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BOETHIUS

Deep Evil God Goodness Philosophy
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
BOETHIUS

Adversity Happiness Kind Kindness Misfortune
The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
BOETHIUS

Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
BOETHIUS

Happiness Misery Positive Stress Thinking

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Boethius Quotes